# Quote — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

> I wondered where the illusion of the second moon had come from, but I only wondered for a moment, and then I dismissed it from my thoughts. Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [The Ocean at the End of the Lane](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane.md)
- Page: 236
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#The_Ocean_at_the_End_of_the_Lane_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/i-wondered-where

## More from this book

> I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid unshakably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

p. 207 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/i-was-a-normal.md)

> I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/i-lived-in-books.md)

> Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/adults-follow-paths.md)